NOW 9:01 A.M. ON MONDAY, MAY 19TH, AND THIS WILL CONVENE THE QUALITY OF LIFE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMITTEE [Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee on May 19, 2025.] [00:00:10] MEETING. OUR FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS IS APPROVAL OF THE APRIL 21ST 2025 COMMITTEE MINUTES. IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. ANY COMMENTS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL, PLEASE SAY AYE. ALL OPPOSED. MOTION'S APPROVED. FIRST BRIEFING ITEM IS THE OMNIBUS ORDINANCE REVIEW. LIZ. MIKE IS YOURS. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR RIDLEY. MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE LIZ CEDILLO-PERERA, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, JOINED TODAY WITH LUIS LOYA, WHO'S ALSO IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. AND AS YOU MAY RECALL, CHAIR AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. CITY MANAGER TOLBERT GAVE HERSELF A GOAL TO COME BACK TO YOU AND PRESENT SOME OF THE ORDINANCES IN OUR CODES THAT NEEDED TO BE CLEANED UP WITHIN HER 100 DAY SPRINT. AND SO WE'RE DOING THAT. WE HAVE WORKED TOGETHER. THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE WORKED IN TANDEM WITH ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF, OF CODES AND THAT EITHER NEED TO BE CLARIFIED OR MODERNIZED OR STRICKEN BECAUSE THEY'RE NO LONGER ENFORCEABLE. AND SO WE'RE HERE TODAY TO PROVIDE YOU THAT HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW. NEXT SLIDE. AND AS YOU KNOW, THE CODE SPANS DECADES OF ORDINANCES, SOME OUTDATED, SOME UNENFORCEABLE. SOME STATE LAWS AND FEDERAL LAWS HAVE CHANGED. PREEMPTING OUR LOCAL REGULATIONS IN SEVERAL AREAS. DEPARTMENTS IDENTIFIED INCONSISTENCIES OR OUTDATED LANGUAGE AND REDUNDANCIES. AND SO THE GOAL HERE IS TO ALIGN OUR CITY ORDINANCES WITH CURRENT LAWS, PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE. SO JUST FOR OUR PUBLIC'S SAKE, WHAT IS AN OMNIBUS ORDINANCE? IT'S A SINGLE ORDINANCE UPDATING, REPEALING OR CLARIFYING SECTIONS ACROSS 30 PLUS CHAPTERS. IT'S TARGETING, OF COURSE, AGAIN, A DUPLICATIVE, PREEMPTED, OUTDATED OR UNENFORCED CODE PROVISIONS. AND IT STREAMLINES OUR REGULATIONS WHILE PRESERVING KEY CITY AUTHORITY AS WELL AS OUR RESPONSIBILITIES. AND OF COURSE. AND WHY DOES THIS MATTER? BECAUSE, OF COURSE, IT CAN POSE LEGAL RISKS TO THE CITY, TO NOT HAVE OUR CODES CLEANED UP AND MODERNIZED. UNENFORCED LAWS CAN CREATE CONFUSION FOR US AS WELL AS FOR OUR RESIDENTS. AND ALIGNING, OF COURSE, WITH STATE FEDERAL LAWS ENSURES ENFORCEABILITY AND COMPLIANCE, AND A MODERNIZED CODE SUPPORTS CLEAR SERVICE DELIVERY AND OUR ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. SO WE HAVE, AS I SAID, WORKED WITH MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS. WE'VE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS FOR REVIEW. THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS DONE A FINE JOB OF VETTING ALL OF THE ORDINANCES. SOME OF THEM, FRANKLY, ARE NOT GOING TO BE IN THIS OMNIBUS ORDINANCE BECAUSE THEY DON'T MEET THE CRITERIA. THEY ARE SOME THAT NEED TO GO THROUGH THE REGULAR CODE PROCESS, CODE AMENDMENT PROCESS. AND SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS A REFINED LISTING OF, OF THOSE THAT, THAT MEET THAT CRITERIA THAT MR. LOYA IS GOING TO DESCRIBE IN SEVERAL BUCKETS. NEXT SLIDE. THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL AND GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS LUIS LOYA. AS ACM LIZ CEDILLO-PEREIRA HAS ALREADY STATED, I WORK FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AS WELL. AND SLIDE SIX HERE WAS THE HIGHLIGHTS OF OUTDATED AND UNUSED PROVISIONS REMOVED. SEVERAL CHAPTERS ARE BEING FULLY REPEALED BECAUSE THEY NO LONGER ARE APPLICABLE. FOR EXAMPLE, CHAPTER 13A, RELATED DALLAS TRANSIT SYSTEM PREDATES DART AND IS OBSOLETE. CHAPTER 39, RAILROAD REGULATIONS ELIMINATED ARE FEDERALLY PREEMPTED. OTHER DELETIONS AS WELL AS LOAN BROKERS, PRIVATE DETECTIVES, TREE UTILITY RULES FROM THE 1940S AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. MODERNIZING CITY PRACTICES CHAPTER TWO REFLECTS REAL SHIFT AND ESTATE SERVICES AND TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. CHAPTER 18 UPDATES TO TRASH COLLECTION, BULKY WASTE AND FRANCHISE RULES. CHAPTER 12 B 28 ATM SITING AND PARKING ENFORCEMENT UPDATED FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS. SO ALL OF THESE FALL INTO SEVERAL BUCKETS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY STATED. CHANGES THE COVID ERA AND LEGAL CHALLENGES ORDINANCE 3234 SIX. EVICTION NOTICE REQUIREMENT REPEALED, NO LONGER ENFORCED BY JP COURTS. CHAPTER 20, EARNED PAID SICK TIME, REPEALED. STATE LAW PREEMPTS AND CHAPTER 52 REMOVES REST BREAK MANDATE DUE TO LEGAL UNCERTAINTY. NEXT NEW HEALTH SAFETY STANDARDS AS WELL. SO FOOD ESTABLISHED NOW REQUIRED TO DISPLAY OF ALLERGEN AWARENESS POSTERS TO BE POSTED IN THE RESTAURANTS. [00:05:06] DOG FRIENDLY PATIO PROVISIONS REMOVED TO ALIGN WITH REVISED STATE AND FOOD CODES. AND SIMPLIFICATION AND CLARITY. SO CHAPTER ONE CLARIFIED DEFINITIONS OF CITY HEALTH OFFICER AND REMOVED COUNTY DEFINITION. CHAPTER 43 STREAMLINED PERMIT PROCESSES FOR RIGHT OF WAY USE AND NEWS RACKS. AND THEN LASTLY MULTIPLE SECTIONS REWARDED OR MERGED FOR EASE AND ENFORCEMENT FOR CLARITY. AND THEN I'LL PASS IT OVER TO ACM LIZ CEDILLO-PEREIRA TO TAKE OVER. THANK YOU, MR. LOYA. SO IN SUMMATION, COUNCIL MEMBERS OVER 30 CHAPTERS ARE AMENDED, REPEALED OR CLARIFY. IT CLEANS UP OUR LEGACY RULES AND PREPARES CODE FOR FUTURE GROWTH AND SETS THE STAGE FOR FUTURE POLICY SEE MODERNIZATION AND ENFORCEMENT ALIGNMENT. OUR NEXT STAGE IS OUR NEXT STEPS ARE TO GET YOUR INPUT TODAY OR YOUR QUESTIONS AND SCHEDULE FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION IN JUNE. THANK YOU. AND WE'RE READY FOR QUESTIONS. MISS SCHULTZ. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. WHOA! SORRY. BACK ON SLIDE IS REALLY LOUD. SORRY. I DON'T WANT IT TO BUZZ BACK. ON SLIDE FIVE, WHERE YOU TALK ABOUT THE ONES THAT YOU ARE COVERING AND WHICH ONES YOU'RE NOT. YOU ARE WHEN YOU THE MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW, ARE THOSE ALL THE ONES UNDER YOUR UMBRELLA ACM OR IS THIS ALL THE ONES IN THE CITY SETTING ASIDE LAND USE CODE, WHICH I KNOW IS UNDER ITS OWN PROCESS? AND THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION AND POINT OF CLARIFICATION, COUNCILMEMBER SCHULTZ. THIS IS ALL DEPARTMENTS. AND SO THOSE THAT FALL OUTSIDE OF MY PORTFOLIO, I'M JUST THE ONE UP HERE. YOU GOT THE GIFT. GIVING THE SUMMARY, OVERSEEING THE WHOLE THING. SO OKAY, SO THAT'S THE ETCETERA IS ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS CORRECT? YES. OKAY. GOT IT. GOT IT. AND SO WHEN WE FINISH THIS PROCESS AGAIN ACCEPTING LAND USE, WILL WE BE UPDATED FOR THE WHOLE CITY OTHER THAN THAT? LET ME LET ME ASK CASEY BURGESS TO JOIN ME OR PROVIDE A RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION. YEAH, THAT SHOULD HAVE OUR CODE. THIS IS CASEY BURGESS, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. THAT SHOULD HAVE OUR CODE PRETTY WELL UP TO DATE. SO, CASEY, I'M SORRY. ARE YOU ON. ARE YOU ON MIC? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE CODE, WE DISCOVERED A LOT OF PROVISIONS, SAY, WHOLE CHAPTERS IN THERE THAT HADN'T BEEN AMENDED SINCE THE 1940S. RIGHT. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS IN THERE THAT JUST EITHER DIDN'T MAKE SENSE ANYMORE, LIKE THEY WERE REALLY OUTDATED, OR THERE WERE THINGS THAT HAD BEEN PREEMPTED BY STATE OR FEDERAL LAW DECADES AGO. SO, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A CHANGE IN STATE OR FEDERAL LAW, WE UPDATE THE CODE AS SOON AS WE CAN NOW, BUT APPARENTLY THAT WASN'T DONE BACK IN THE DAY, RIGHT? SO THIS WAS REALLY AN EXERCISE TO GO THROUGH AND TRY TO JUST SWEEP ALL THAT OLD STUFF OUT AND, AND UPDATE IT AS NEEDED. WELL, THAT'S THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO SORRY TO STAY ON THIS LONGER. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M USING YOUR ANALOGY OF SWEEPING. WILL WE THEN AGAIN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LAND USE, WILL WE HAVE SWEPT THE WHOLE HOUSE? YES. WE LOOKED AT THE CODE IN ITS ENTIRETY. IT WAS BACK IN NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER. WE SENT OUT A REQUEST TO ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS TO IDENTIFY THINGS IN THE CODE THAT THEY KNEW OF THAT EITHER WEREN'T ENFORCED OR WERE UNENFORCEABLE, WERE PREEMPTED, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WE COMPILED A GIGANTIC LIST AND THEN WENT THROUGH THAT SYSTEMATICALLY JUST MADE THE AMENDMENTS. SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO COMMEND YOU BECAUSE I'M SURE THIS WAS NO SMALL TASK. I KNOW WHAT SWEEPING A HOUSE LOOKS LIKE. IT'S NOT PRETTY. BUT THE SECOND THING IS ALSO TO BE CLEAR, NONE OF THESE ARE THESE ARE ALL OBJECTIVE CHANGES THAT NEED TO BE MADE. THERE'S NO REASON TO HAVE DEBATE OR DISCUSSION ABOUT ANY OF ANY OF THEM BEING, YOU KNOW, OUTDATED OR UPDATED. IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT. YEAH. THE GOAL WAS TO REALLY JUST DO AMENDMENTS THAT WERE THINGS THAT WERE EITHER OUTDATED OR PREEMPTED, RIGHT? NOT TO DO ANYTHING THAT WAS, SAY, LIKE A POLICY CHANGE THAT WE WOULD NEED TO BRING TO YOU GUYS. WE DID GET AS WE LOOKED AT THE REQUEST, SOME OF THEM WERE KIND OF A WISH LIST OR DEPARTMENTS OR THINGS THAT THEY WOULD JUST LIKE TO CHANGE, AND WE DID NOT PRESENT THOSE AS PART OF THIS PACKAGE. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT CAN COME BACK IN THE FUTURE AND GO THROUGH THE REGULAR ROUTE. SO WHAT WILL BE THEN, I GUESS TO ACM? WHAT WILL BE THEN THE PROCESS FOR THE ONES THAT REALLY ARE POLICY DISCUSSIONS? YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND OF COURSE THOSE WERE REJECTED FOR THIS EXERCISE. CORRECT. NO POLICY CHANGES AS HAS BEEN STATED, BUT WE ARE GOING TO THEN GO BACK AND AGGREGATE ALL THOSE THAT DEPARTMENTS HAVE SAID, HEY, THIS MAY NEED A TWEAK, THIS MAY NEED TO BE HAVE MORE TEETH BECAUSE IT'S NOT VERY ENFORCEABLE, ETC. THIS IS NOT WORKING AS WELL AS WE'D LIKE IT TO, BUT THOSE WILL GO THROUGH THE PROPER COMMITTEE STRUCTURES. [00:10:05] GREAT. I FIND THAT, MR. CHAIRMAN, I'LL END WITH THIS, WHICH IS I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A REALLY EXCITING TIME MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE THOSE POLICY DISCUSSIONS ARE INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. MISS WILLIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I THINK YOU MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING WHEN THIS STARTED, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW IF MISS TOLBERT ASKED THAT THIS BE DONE. WHEN DID THIS START? WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT BACK IN 24, LATE, LATE 24. BUT SHE INCLUDED IT AS PART OF HER 100 DAY PLAN. AND SO SHE'S COMING UP ON THAT 100 DAYS IN JUNE. AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE OUR DEADLINE IS OUR INTENTION. BUT THAT'S REALLY THE TIME FRAME. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT. SO IT'S BEEN A VERY CONSERVATIVE, INTENTIONAL EFFORT ON OUR PART. THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE CARRYING THE BULK OF THE WEIGHT AND ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS. AND SO IT REALLY HAS BEEN A COLLABORATIVE EXERCISE. WELL, WHAT A THOROUGH AND NECESSARY EXERCISE. AND I LOVE THAT IT ALSO HAD THIS BYPRODUCT THAT ACTUALLY IS VERY IMPORTANT. AND THAT IS POLICY THAT YOU KNOW, WE'VE TESTED IN THE MARKETPLACE. AND NOW THE MARKETPLACE IS TELLING US THIS NEEDS TO BE STRONGER OR THIS NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. SO I LOVE THAT WE'RE DOING THIS AND HOPEFULLY DOING IT IN ONE BIG SWEEP. I DID HAVE A COUPLE OF PARTICULAR ISSUES ACTUALLY. JUST ONE FOR TODAY. UNDER CODE CHAPTER 31 TO 40 ON SHOPPING CART REGULATION, I DID NOT LOOK UP TO SEE WHAT THE CURRENT LANGUAGE SAYS, BUT ANYONE WHO OBSERVES CITY STREETS CAN SEE THAT WE'VE GOT SHOPPING CARTS AND USE FAR FROM WHERE THEY ARE DESIGNATED TO BE USED FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES AND ABANDONED AND THAT SORT OF THING. AND I JUST AM WONDERING HOW THAT RUNS UP AGAINST WHAT THE SHOPPING CART REGULATION CURRENTLY SAYS. IT SAYS NOT ENFORCED, OUTDATED AS A NUISANCE ORDINANCE. SO I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. AND I HAVE THE DEPARTMENTS HERE REPRESENTED BY JEREMY REED. HE'S GOING TO COME AND PROVIDE SOME MORE CONTEXT. BUT TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIS, WE HAD A MULTIPLE DEPARTMENT TRAINING ON FRIDAY AND WAS REALLY SURPRISED TO SEE THE NUMBER OF SHOPPING CARTS THAT DO NOT STAY IN THEIR PLACE. AND SO WE TOOK NOTE OF THAT. AND WE'LL DO SOME FOLLOW UP TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO BEST ENFORCE THOSE MEASURES. BUT I'M PASSING IT OFF TO ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JEREMY REED TO PROVIDE MORE CONTEXT. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR, COMMITTEE. JEREMY REED, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CODE COMPLIANCE. TO THE QUESTION OF SHOPPING CARTS. I BELIEVE THE SECTION THAT IS BEING REPEALED FROM THE CODE IS SECTION 31-40, WHICH IS ENTITLED IN THE CODE POSSESSION OF SHOPPING CARTS. WE ALSO HAVE SHOPPING CARTS MENTIONED IN OUR LITTER ORDINANCE, OUR ANTI-LITTER REGULATIONS IN CHAPTER 7 A. THAT PART IS NOT BEING TOUCHED. THE PART THAT IS BEING ADDRESSED IS THE POSSESSION OF SHOPPING CARTS IN 31-40. THIS WAS NOT ONE OF THE CHANGES THAT WAS SUBMITTED BY CODE, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO TALK THROUGH GENERALLY WHAT THE CODE SAYS FOR YOUR AWARENESS. WHAT 31-40 DOES IS IT ACTUALLY MAKES AN OFFENSE FOR POSSESSING THE SHOPPING CART OFF OF THE PREMISE OF WHERE IT BELONGS. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING CODE COMPLIANCE HAS EVER ENFORCED. IT WOULD REQUIRE IDENTIFICATION AND CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT AGAINST THE PERSON WHO HAS POSSESSION OF THAT SHOPPING CART. WHERE CODE COMPLIANCE DOES INTERSECT WITH SHOPPING CARTS IS CHAPTER SEVEN A INCLUDES THEM IN THE DEFINITION OF LITTER. ANYTIME THAT SHOPPING CARTS ARE FOUND ABANDONED OR ANYWHERE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, THEY ARE THEN IMMEDIATELY CONSTITUTED AS LITTER. SO WHEN WE DO CLEANUPS OF STREETS, WHEN WE DO CLEANUPS OF PRIVATE PROPERTIES OR UNDER YOU KNOW, OVERPASSES OR WHEREVER THESE THINGS END UP, WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ANY PROCESS OF YOU KNOW, NOTIFICATION OF PEOPLE THAT WERE TAKING THEIR BELONGINGS. IT IS JUST DEFINED AS LITTER, SO THAT THAT PART IS NOT BEING CHANGED. OUR ABILITY TO CLEAN UP SHOPPING CARTS THAT ARE ABANDONED OUT ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE PROPERTY IS NOT BEING CHANGED. OKAY. THAT'S GOOD, BUT I AM CONCERNED BECAUSE WE'VE GOT BUSINESSES TO THINK ABOUT. I MEAN, THAT'S THEFT. YOU KNOW, IF YOU TAKE FROM TARGET OR TOM THUMB OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I MEAN, THE COST OF THESE CAN RUN, I DON'T KNOW, $200. AND SO IF YOU'RE PERPETUALLY HAVING TO REPLACE THEM, I MEAN, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE NEED TO OVERLOOK OR CHANGE. I THINK THAT IS ONE THAT JUMPED OUT AT ME TO TO EXAMINE MORE CLOSELY. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MECHANISMS THAT THESE BUSINESSES ARE HAVING TO INVEST IN TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY. AND SO I WANT TO BE SURE THAT SINCE THEY ARE HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT EXPENSE OF THE REPLACEMENT AND EVEN SECURITY MECHANISMS, THAT WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT A TOOL, WE MAY NOT GO OUT AND ENFORCE EVERY SINGLE THING. IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE MEDIAN ORDINANCE WHERE IT'S THERE IF IT IS NEEDED TO FALL BACK ON. [00:15:05] BUT I THINK WE NEED TO REALLY EXAMINE THAT ONE. THANK YOU. SO NOTED. THANK YOU. GOING ONLINE. MISS BLACKMON, DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? AND MR. BAZALDUA. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE THAN IT SEEMED PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT I DO. I'M CURIOUS, THOUGH, TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION NOW THAT MY AWESOME COLLEAGUE JUST BROUGHT UP A GREAT ISSUE THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE CITY, BUT I DON'T I DON'T NECESSARILY. I JUST I'D LIKE TO I'D LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SHOPPING CART SPECIFICALLY. I FEEL LIKE OUR ROLE IS WHAT WAS JUST DESCRIBED WITH WHAT WE STILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED TO BE IN THE BUSINESS OF ENFORCING SHRINK FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES, AND THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT THIS IS. SO I'M JUST I THINK OFFLINE MORE THAN ANYTHING. I'D LIKE TO TALK WITH YOU, MISS WILLIS, JUST TO UNDERSTAND BETTER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'RE MENTIONING, BECAUSE I THINK THAT OUR ABILITY AS A CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY STAY OFF OF OUR STREETS, ETCETERA. WE STILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF DOING. I'M JUST CURIOUS WHY WE WOULD WANT TO STRICKEN THAT TO STEP IN AND WORK ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE BUSINESSES. AND WE DON'T DO THAT FOR ANY OTHER PRODUCTS OR BUSINESS TYPES AS WELL. THANK YOU, MR. BAZALDUA. AND MISS SCHULTZ HAS A FOLLOW UP. SO I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON THE SHOPPING CART ISSUE. APPARENTLY, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS FOR CASEY OR JEREMY. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE CARTS GET LEFT ALL OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WE HAVE ASKED THE STORES TO GO BY IN A PICKUP AND PICK THEM UP. AND THEY HAVE. BUT I'D LIKE TO FIND OUT, A, WHAT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT. AND IS THERE ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR NOTIFICATION FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY, I MEAN, ARE THEY BREAKING THE LAW IF WHEN WE REPEAL THIS, ARE THEY NO LONGER THEN BREAKING THE LAW BY TAKING THEM? WHAT IS THE OUTCOME OF THAT? SO PEOPLE CAN BE FOREWARNED IF THERE IS SOME SORT OF PENALTY. SO THIS IS CASEY BURGESS FROM CASEY BURGESS OF THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. SO I CAN'T SPEAK AS FAR AS TO STORES GOING OUT AND PICKING THEM UP. I DON'T HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THAT. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT IF SOMEBODY DOES TAKE A SHOPPING CART FROM A STORE, THAT WOULD STILL BE CONSIDERED THEFT. I MEAN, THAT WOULD STILL BE AGAINST THE LAW. SO NOTHING WOULD CHANGE THERE. IT WOULD JUST BE THEY WOULDN'T BE NECESSARILY GOING OUT AND TARGETING PEOPLE JUST SIMPLY FOR POSSESSION OF A SHOPPING CART. BUT YOU COULD DEFINITELY STILL BRING CHARGES AGAINST THEM FOR THEFT. SO IS THERE ANY WARNING? HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE THEM? DON'T KNOW THAT I HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT ONE. WE'LL FOLLOW UP. I THINK THERE'S SOME INFORMATION IN THE CODE RELATED TO DECAL AND SIGNAGE. WELL, THAT'S WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT BECAUSE APPARENTLY THAT WE'RE REMOVING THAT SIGNAGE. AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE HAVE THE CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE BREAKING THE LAW WHEN THEY TAKE IT. CAN WE CIRCLE BACK WITH YOU? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CIRCLE BACK WITH ME. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS, BECAUSE IT'S NOT FAIR TO PEOPLE TO NOT KNOW THAT. THAT'S NOT THAT THAT'S AN ILLEGAL ACT. THANK YOU. DEFINITELY. WE'LL LOOK AT THAT. THANK YOU. SO LIZ, REFERRING TO SLIDE THREE, THE REFERENCE TO UNENFORCED CODE PROVISIONS. WHAT OTHER UNENFORCED CODE PROVISIONS ARE BEING SLATED FOR DELETION AND WHY? WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I WANT TO. AND WHY ARE THEY UNENFORCED IS MY QUESTION. WHICH SLIDE DO WE HAVE THAT ON? SOME OF THEM ARE NO LONGER ENFORCED AS YOU SEE FROM THE COVID ERA RIGHT. THEY'RE NO LONGER ENFORCING THE EVICTION NOTICE REQUIREMENT. STATE LAW PREEMPTS SOME OF THOSE THAT ARE IN THE CODE, SUCH AS THE EARNED PAID SICK LEAVE. WELL, I WOULD FALL UNDER PREEMPTED ORDINANCES. [00:20:03] THIS SEEMS TO BE A SEPARATE CATEGORY OF VALID CODE PROVISIONS THAT ARE JUST NOT BEING ENFORCED. AND I'M CURIOUS WHY. AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT I THINK IT'S PAGE 36 SLIDE 13, THERE ARE MULTIPLE HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT OUTDATED OR UNUSED PROVISIONS THAT ARE BEING REMOVED, AS WELL AS THE CHAPTERS WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE VARIOUS RULES, THE ACTIONS THAT ARE THAT ARE TAKING PLACE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT BEING EITHER ENFORCED OR IT'S OUTDATED, ETC. AND ASKING LOOKING FOR MR. BURGESS TO GIVE ME SOME GOOD EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF NON-ENFORCEABILITY. SO I'VE GOT ON MY LIST THAT I HAVE FROM THE REQUEST THAT CAME IN, I HAD THREE THINGS THAT WERE JUST REQUESTS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT BEING ENFORCED. ONE WAS THE 31-40 POSSESSION OF SHOPPING CARTS, THAT'S ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED. ANOTHER WAS THE EVICTION ORDINANCE THAT MISS CEDILLO JUST MENTIONED. THAT'S NOT NO LONGER BEING ENFORCED BY THE JP COURTS. THAT WAS A COVID ERA THING. AND THEN I HAD TWO PROVISIONS DOWN FROM CHAPTER SEVEN A, AND THOSE DEALT WITH POSTING NOTICES ON POLES, TREES AND STRUCTURES. THOSE ARE THE ONLY THREE THINGS THAT I HAD ON MY LIST THAT WERE SHOWN THAT THEY WERE JUST THINGS THAT WERE NOT ENFORCED. THEN THERE WERE THEN, AS MISS CEDILLO MENTIONED, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS IN THERE THAT WERE JUST PRACTICES THAT WERE OUT OF DATE. SO THERE WERE A NUMBER OF MENTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CODE OF THE CITY ISSUING DECALS FOR THINGS. APPARENTLY, THE CITY HAS AN ISSUE DECALS WHEN YOU GET SOME SORT OF LICENSE OR FRANCHISE FOR YEARS AND YEARS. SO WE'RE TAKING THOSE THINGS OUT. THERE'S JUST SEVERAL THINGS IN THERE LIKE THAT. THERE'S SOME THERE WERE SOME REALLY OLD REFERENCES TO THE BUILDING CODE REFERENCE TO FAIR PARK, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO DID WE OBTAIN ANY INPUT FROM THE UTILITY COMPANIES WHO HAVE POLES IN OUR CITY ABOUT WHETHER THEY THOUGHT THE ORDINANCE BANNING POSTING ON THEIR POLES WAS NO LONGER NECESSARY. THAT'S A THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW IF THE DEPARTMENT IS HERE TO TO RESPOND TO THAT. WELL, I THINK BEFORE WE DELETE THAT, WE NEED TO CONSULT THEM BECAUSE. THERE IS A DETERRENCE EFFECT TO AN ORDINANCE BANNING CERTAIN BEHAVIOR EVEN IF IT'S NOT ENFORCED. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FROM AN ANTI CLUTTER PERSPECTIVE, THAT WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE POSTING POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SIGNS ON EVERY UTILITY POLE IN OUR CITY, OF WHICH THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME INPUT FROM THEM AND US. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THAT ORDINANCE AND WHETHER IT'S WORTH PRESERVING. ALSO, THE ITEM ON SLIDE NINE ABOUT DOG FRIENDLY PATIO PROVISIONS BEING REMOVED. WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE CURRENT CODE PROVISIONS WITH REGARD TO DOG FRIENDLY PATIOS? AND WHAT DO THE REVISED STATE CODES PROVIDE? DO WE HAVE OUR COLLEAGUES WITH DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES HERE TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND? OKAY. I THINK MR. HANNA I KNOW HIM. BROUGHT HER ABOUT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR, COMMITTEE. CEDRIC, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE SERVICES. I'LL BE HAPPY TO SPEAK ON THAT. IT WAS PREEMPTED BY STATUTE. IN FACT, THAT WAS PASSED TWO YEARS AGO. AND SO WE STILL HAD OUR ORIGINAL ORDINANCE ON THE BOOKS AND HAD NOT, YOU KNOW, REVISED THAT OR REMOVED IT OR RESCINDED IT. AND SO WHAT BUSINESSES WERE DOING IN THE PAST WERE FILING FOR AN EXEMPTION TO HAVE PETS ON THE PATIO, WHICH WE ALLOWED THEM TO DO AT A FEE. PETS COULD NOT GO THROUGH THE DINING ROOM EXCEPT SERVICE ANIMALS. [00:25:03] THEY COULDN'T GO THROUGH THE DINING ROOM. THEY HAD TO HAVE ACCESS FROM THE STREETS. AND SO SINCE THAT HAS PASSED, THAT IS WHY WE ACTUALLY INSERTED IT TO BE RESCINDED. SO WHAT DOES THE STATE FOOD CODE NOW PERMIT OR ALLOW. THEY ALLOW PETS TO BE ON THE PATIO OF ANY FOOD ESTABLISHMENT THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF TEXAS. CAN THEY BE IN THE DINING ROOMS? CANNOT BE IN THE DINING ROOM OKAY. THE ONLY EXCEPTION ARE SERVICE ANIMALS. OKAY, SO THEY CAN'T TRAVERSE THE DINING ROOM TO GET TO THE PATIO EITHER. THAT IS PRECISELY CORRECT. SO THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT DUPLICATES WHAT OUR ORDINANCE SAID. WELL, I BELIEVE AND I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME, BUT OUR ORDINANCE ALLOWED FOR IT BY THEY COULD FILE AN EXEMPTION AND ADD A FEE AT CONSUMER HEALTH. OH, AND NOW IT'S BY. RIGHT. YES. OKAY. THAT THAT WAS OUR PROVISION. OKAY. BACK TO THE UNENFORCED ORDINANCES. I'D LIKE TO TAKE A BROADER LOOK AT THOSE IN THE SENSE OF WHICH ONES DID YOU IDENTIFY AS NOT BEING ENFORCED SIMPLY BASED UPON OUR PROSECUTORS STATED POLICY OF NOT ENFORCING THAT ORDINANCE, WHICH ADMITTEDLY COULD CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO DO THAT, CHAIR. AND IN FACT, THIS IS OUR FIRST BRIEFING ON THIS, BUT WE WILL BE TAKING IT TO FULL COUNCIL. SO ALL OF THOSE, ALL THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE'RE HEARING FROM TODAY WILL BE ADDRESSED. YEAH. I'D LIKE TO HAVE A LIST OF THOSE ITEMS THAT YOU'VE IDENTIFIED AS NOT BEING ENFORCED AS A RESULT OF PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION. THANK YOU. SO NOTED. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE. LET'S THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM B ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH IS DEVELOPING A QUALITY OF LIFE STRATEGY FOR THE SENIOR STRATEGIC PLAN. JESSICA GALLASHAW. GOOD MORNING. I'M JESSICA WELSH. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE AND EMPOWERMENT FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS. EXCUSE ME. AND I'M JOINED TODAY BY TABITHA TAYLOR, OUR AGE FRIENDLY OFFICER. WITHIN OUR OFFICE AND ONLINE, I AM JOINED BY TWO PARTNERS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH GUIDE HOUSE INCORPORATED FOR THIS YEAR'S STRATEGIC PLAN. THEIR RICK HENRY AND JASON WRIGHT. SO THEY'LL BE JOINING ME IN THIS PRESENTATION TODAY. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET US STARTED, AND THEN I'M GOING TO PASS IT OVER TO TABITHA AND THE GUIDEHOUSE TEAM TO TAKE US THROUGH THE PLANNING PROCESS UPDATES. SO TO START OFF, THE OUTLINE FOR TODAY IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE UPDATES ON THE PROGRESS OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. WE ARE NEARING FINAL COMPLETION OF THIS DOCUMENT. WE'RE STILL TAKING INPUT AND INSIGHT, BUT WE SHOULD HAVE A FINAL PRODUCT DELIVERED NEXT MONTH. AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT'S GONE INTO THAT. AND THEN OF COURSE, THE FINDINGS THAT ARE BEING UNCOVERED AS WE MOVE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. NEXT UP, THE SENIOR STRATEGIC PLAN IS A PROJECT THAT WAS ACTUALLY RECOMMENDED BY OUR SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION THROUGH THEIR ANNUAL PRIORITIES REPORT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO OR DURING OR IN ADVANCE OF 2024. SHOULD I SAY FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR? AND SO DURING THAT YEAR, WE ACTUALLY DID THE RFP IN THE PROCUREMENT, AND WE IDENTIFIED A CONTRACTOR TO HELP SUPPORT US IN THAT EFFORT. AND THAT WAS AUTHORIZED IN THE FALL OF LAST YEAR TO MOVE FORWARD. AND, OF COURSE, GUIDEHOUSE IS THAT PARTNER. THE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WITH FORWARD THINKING STRATEGIES. SO THOSE ARE SOME KEY GUIDEPOSTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE PROCESS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE AND WHAT ARE OPPORTUNITIES, LOOKING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE FOR HOW WE NEED TO BE SERVING OUR OLDER ADULTS AND AGING COMMUNITY? AND OF COURSE, THE PLAN ITSELF IS SEEKING TO IDENTIFY NEEDS, IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES, AND IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS FOR ADVANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR OLDER ADULT POPULATION. AND SO NOW AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TURN IT OVER TO TABITHA TAYLOR, OUR AGE FRIENDLY OFFICER, WHO'S GOING TO TAKE IT FROM THE SCOPE OF WORK AND TALK ABOUT THIS PROJECT MORE SPECIFICALLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR GALLISHAW. AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. IT'S AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE WITH YOU ALL TODAY. [00:30:01] AND FOR THOSE WHO I HAVE NOT MET, I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE AND SERVE IN THIS CAPACITY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND JUST DIVE RIGHT IN. WE KNOW THAT NOW WE ARE HOME TO OVER 150,000 OLDER ADULTS. AND THIS IS THIS INCREASE IS NOT JUST WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITHIN DALLAS BUT NATIONWIDE. OUR OLDER ADULTS, THEY'RE LIVING LONGER. AND I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY LEAD THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT FOR US TO REALLY TAKE OUR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUPPORT OUR OLDER ADULTS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE THEM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE PREPARING AS A CITY. SO OUR WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW OUR DEMOGRAPHICS WITHIN THIS SCOPE OF WORK. AND SO THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THESE PROFILES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AS WELL AS WITHIN, OF COURSE, WITHIN THE DISTRICTS, AND REALLY LOOK AT WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO CONTINUE TO PREPARE FOR THIS GROWTH. THE LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS OFFERS US AN OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY LOOK INTERNALLY, BUT THEN TO REALLY LOOK AT OUR SOCIAL SERVICES PARTNERS AND HOW THEY'RE SERVING ESPECIALLY DUE TO THIS GROWTH AS WELL. ONCE AGAIN, AS I JUST FORESTATED IT IS GOING TO COMMUNITY WIDE. SO LOOKING AT ONCE AGAIN THOSE PARTNERS AND HOW THEY ARE PROVIDING, SERVICING FOCUSING ON FREE AND LOW COST SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMING AND ASSISTANCE TO OUR OLDER ADULTS WITH THE EMPHASIS ON LOW INCOME, OLDER ADULTS. NOW, I'LL SAY THAT THE SENIOR SERVICES INDEX, WHEN WE GET TO THAT COMPONENT THAT'S REALLY LOOKING INTERNALLY. HOW ARE WE RESPONDING AS A CITY AND PROVIDING THOSE INTERNAL PROGRAMING AND SERVICES PER OUR DEPARTMENTS. AND AS WE SAID BEFORE, THIS IS A CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN. SO WE'RE NOT JUST LOOKING AT THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE AND EMPOWERMENT, BUT ALSO WITHIN THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS. THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT REALLY LOOKS AT IDENTIFYING THE GAPS THAT WE HAVE NOT JUST WITHIN JUST A GENERAL COMMUNITY, BUT THEN ALSO LOOKING AT THE NEEDS FOR OUR LOW AND MODERATE INCOME OLDER ADULTS AS WELL. AND WITH THOSE INDICATORS OF LOOKING AT THE QUALITATIVE DATA AND QUANTITATIVE DATA, WE THEN WILL MOVE FORWARD AND DRAW THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. NEXT SLIDE, THANK YOU. SO THE NEXT PIECE IS THE PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS AND HOW WELL WE HAVE RESPONDED TO THE VAST GROWING POPULATION OF OUR AGING COMMUNITY. AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO CONTINUOUSLY SERVE THEM. AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE DONE THUS FAR, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE AGE FRIENDLY CITY. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN AGE FRIENDLY ACTION PLAN. HOWEVER, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC DID HAVE SOME, SOME IMPACTS ON THAT. AND SO WE'RE CURRENTLY REVIEWING THE AGE FRIENDLY ACTION PLAN. LOOKING AT WHAT WE'VE DONE, WHERE THE GAPS MAY STILL LIE SO THAT WE CAN PREPARE FOR OUR NEXT ITERATION. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT EVERYTHING I JUST SHARED WITH YOU ALL AND WE PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER, THIS THEN WILL ALLOW FOR US TO GENERATE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. AND I WILL TELL YOU, AND I THINK OUR CONSULTANTS, THEY WOULD ALSO SAY THAT THIS, I THINK, IS WHAT HAS BEEN THE BREAD AND BUTTER OF IT WILL BE THE BREAD AND BUTTER OF EVERYTHING I SHARE WITH THEM VERY EARLY ON, THAT WE DO NOT WANT A PLAN THAT WOULD SIT ON THE SHELF, BUT WE WANT A PLAN THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT. WE KNOW THAT THAT IS MOST APPROPRIATE. AND SO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WE WILL LOOK AT OVER THE NEXT 3 TO 5 YEARS AND MOVE FORWARD IN OUR IMPLEMENTATION. AND THEN ONE PIECE OF IT, I DO WANT TO JUST HONE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT REGARDING AND THAT IS COMMUNICATION. WE KNOW THAT THIS IS AN AREA IN WHICH WE DO NEED TO IMPROVE. WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSIONERS, WE'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY. AND WITH THAT SAID, IT'S BEEN VERY CONSISTENT THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT HOW EFFECTIVELY WE'RE COMMUNICATING WITH OUR AGING POPULATION, HOW EFFECTIVELY WE'RE SHARING INFORMATION AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, WHETHER THAT IS VIA A FLIER OR IF THAT'S UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE'S SOME OLDER ADULTS THAT ACTUALLY ENJOY TECHNOLOGY WHILE OTHERS DON'T SO MUCH. SO THESE ARE AREAS IN WHICH WE ARE EXPLORING UTILIZING CITY PLATFORMS AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT FURTHER PLATFORMS SO THAT WE CAN RESPOND EFFECTIVELY IN THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE. SO WITH ALL OF THAT SAID, AT THIS TIME, I AM GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR GUIDEHOUSE CONSULTANTS, WHO IS HERE TODAY. BOTH AS JESSICA, AS OUR DIRECTOR STATED MR. RICK HENLEY AND THEN ALSO MR. JASON WRIGHT, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO A LITTLE MORE IN DEPTH ON WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. TABITHA, I APPRECIATE THAT INVITE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, FOR ALLOWING US TO PRESENT TODAY. WE'RE JUST GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT OUR PLAN OF ACTION WAS ONCE WE STARTED WORK ON THE SENIOR. [00:35:04] SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. VERY BRIEFLY I'M RICK HENLEY. I'M A CONSULTANT WITH GUIDEHOUSE. PRIOR TO JOINING GUIDEHOUSE, I WAS THE AGING DIRECTOR FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA OFFICE OF AGING AND ADULT SERVICES. JAY, YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF REAL FAST, SIR? THANKS. MY NAME IS JAY WRIGHT. I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE AGING AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY SPACE, BOTH IN STATE GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS A CONSULTANT FOR ABOUT THE LAST 11 YEARS. SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE TODAY. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS BASICALLY HOW WE OPERATIONALIZED OUR PLAN OF ACTION TO DEVELOP A SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS. WE BASICALLY DIVIDED THE PROJECT INTO THREE PHASES. PHASE ZERO BEING JUST YOU KNOW, SETTING UP A CADENCE WITH OK GETTING NECESSARY DOCUMENTS THAT WE NEED TO START OUR WORK. THINGS LIKE THAT. IN PHASE ONE, WE JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED THAT WAS BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, LEARNING THE STATE OF THE STATE THAT INCLUDED A LOT OF THOSE DELIVERABLES THAT YOU SAW TABITHA PREVIOUSLY PRESENT ON. THIS INCLUDED DEVELOPING THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS THAT IDENTIFIED WHERE HOW MANY OLDER ADULTS ARE IN THE CITY AND WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED. WE BROKE THOSE OUT FROM 60 AND ABOVE, 65 AND ABOVE 70 AND ABOVE AND 85 AND ABOVE. WE ALSO WANTED TO KNOW THE STATE OF THE SERVICES WITHIN THE STATE OF DALLAS. I MEAN, THE CITY OF DALLAS. SO WE DID, AS TABITHA STATED, A SENIOR SERVICES INDEX. THIS CATEGORIZED ALL THE SERVICES THAT WERE GEARED TOWARD SENIORS THAT WERE PROVIDED BY THE CITY OF DALLAS. ADDITIONALLY, WE ALSO DID AN ORGANIZATIONAL SURVEY THAT SURVEYED PROVIDERS, COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDED SERVICES TO THE SENIORS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS AS WELL. BUT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY PROVIDED A LOT OF INSIGHT WAS ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE FOLKS WHO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES. WE TALKED AT LENGTH TO OK LEADERSHIP, AS WELL AS LEADERSHIP FOR VARIOUS OTHER DALLAS DEPARTMENTS TO GET THEIR INSIGHTS ON WHAT WAS WORKING, WHAT'S NOT WORKING WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS IN TERMS OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO OLDER ADULTS IN THE CITY. WE ALSO DID IS WE ACTUALLY HEARD FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS WE PROVIDED WE ACTUALLY HELD TWO PUBLIC LISTENING SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND WE ALSO FIND THAT IN BEST PRACTICES, DO HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY PROVIDE SERVICES TO OLDER ADULTS. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID IS WE ACTUALLY HAD A LISTENING SESSION WITH PROVIDERS WHO PROVIDE SERVICES TO OLDER ADULTS TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT WAS WORKING AND WHAT'S NOT WORKING. ADDITIONALLY, WE HELD A LISTENING SESSION WITH THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION TO GET THEIR INSIGHT AS TO WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO THEM IN TERMS OF THEIR DISTRICT. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE ALSO HELD A CITY WIDE SURVEY THAT WAS CONDUCTED IN FIVE LANGUAGES, WHERE WE ASKED THE LITANY OF QUESTIONS FROM OLDER ADULTS AND CAREGIVERS AS TO WHAT WAS WORKING, WHAT WAS THE MOST PRESSING NEED, AND TO GET THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON THE CITY OF DALLAS. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WAS TABITHA MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT WAS ECHO, IS THAT MOST PEOPLE WERE PRETTY SATISFIED WITH THE SERVICES THEY RECEIVED FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS. THERE WAS JUST A QUESTION OF AS TO HOW TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT THEM AND HOW TO ACCESS THEM, SO THAT WILL BE AN OVERARCHING THEME AS WE DEVELOP OUR SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN. ONE THING I DID WANT TO POINT OUT, THOUGH, IS THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS UNIQUE TO DALLAS. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU LOOK AT MIAMI OR BOSTON OR CITY OF IRVINE OR ANYWHERE, COMMUNICATION IS A BEDROCK IN ANY SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN BECAUSE IT'S THE FOUNDATION OF HOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ACCESS THOSE SERVICES AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO RECEIVE THEM. NEXT SLIDE. YOU CAN ACTUALLY FORWARD TO THE NEXT TWO SLIDES. THERE WAS ACTUALLY OVER 19 DELIVERABLES THAT THIS RIGHT HERE WAS BASICALLY THE PHASE ONE STATE OF THE DELIVERABLES THAT WERE COMPLETED TO GET FEEDBACK FROM VARIOUS ENTITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF DALLAS. WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY AT, NEXT SLIDE IS IN THE PLANNING STAGE. IT'S THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE CURRENTLY AT. AT THIS POINT, WE'RE ACTUALLY TAKING ALL OF THE DATA THAT WE ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO COMPILE BOTH QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE AND PREPARING A RECOMMENDATION SUMMARY THAT WE WILL PRESENT TO OK THIS WEEK. THIS WILL INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE FIND THE NEEDS ARE MOST PRESSING, WHAT OUR PLAN OF ATTACK IS TO ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS. WE'LL GET OK OCCURRENCE. FROM THAT WE WILL DEVELOP A DRAFT OF THE SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN. THE PLAN WILL HAVE OVERARCHING DOMAINS. IT WILL HAVE GOALS AND THEY WILL HAVE ACTION ITEMS TO MEET THOSE GOALS. [00:40:04] AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AT A LATER DATE IS TABITHA. AS TABITHA STATED EARLIER, WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE A PLAN THAT JUST SETS UP ON THE SHELF THAT NOBODY LOOKS AT FOR FIVE YEARS. WE WANT THIS TO BE A LIVING, BREATHING, DYNAMIC DOCUMENT THAT ACTUALLY HAS SOME ACTION ITEMS WITH TIME FRAMES THAT WE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATE AND CAN CONTINUOUSLY PIVOT AS WE FIND THAT THINGS ARE WORKING AND ARE NOT WORKING. SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO DO IS DEVELOP BOTH ACTION ITEMS AND SOME MEASURES TO ACTUALLY SEE HOW WELL WE ARE PROGRESSING AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH WE ANTICIPATE WILL BE ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO 5 YEARS. ONE THING WE DID WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU, THOUGH, AS WE BEFORE WE LEAVE, IS WHAT ARE OUR PRELIMINARY FINDINGS? WE TALK A LOT ABOUT WE BRIEFLY OVERVIEW ALL OF THIS OUTREACH THAT WE DID, ALL THESE LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE DID. WHAT DID WE GLEAN? WHAT DID PEOPLE TELL US? WHAT DID THE DATA TELL US? AND FOR THAT, I WANT TO TURN IT OVER TO JAY. THANKS, RICK, I APPRECIATE IT. SO AS RICK MENTIONED, WE COMBINED BOTH THE QUALITATIVE AND THE QUANTITATIVE DATA, AND WE CATEGORIZED THAT DATA INTO THESE EIGHT SERVICE DOMAINS. AND THEN WE ASSIGNED A LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE TO, TO THOSE DOMAINS BASED ON THE PREVALENCE OF THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA BY ZIP CODE. SO THE SERVICE DOMAINS THAT INDICATE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF NEED ACROSS THE CITY ARE MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION, SOCIAL ISOLATION AND FOOD INSECURITY. COMING IN AT LEVEL TWO WERE HEALTHCARE ACCESS TECHNOLOGY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND THEN LEVEL THREE, WHICH WAS THE LEAST IMPORTANT LEVEL OF NEED BASED ON THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS WHERE AGING IN PLACE AND FINANCIAL SECURITY. WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. USING ZIP CODE LEVEL DATA, WE APPROXIMATED THE NEEDS FOR DISTRICTS. AND I WANT TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT THIS IS AN APPROXIMATION. WE WERE ABLE TO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH ZIP CODE LEVEL DATA BASED ON GUIDANCE FROM OK, AS WELL AS THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION, TO TARGET AREAS AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT THE PLAN COULD BE EXTREMELY TACTICAL AS WELL AS STRATEGIC. SO THESE ZIP CODES, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR DISTRICTS THERE ON THE LEFT, ARE THE ONES THAT ARE INDICATED AS MOST IN NEED BASED ON THEIR APPEARANCE IN, EACH OF THE EIGHT DOMAINS. SO AGAIN IT'S AN APPROXIMATION. WE ALSO HAVE ZIP CODES IN BOLD HERE THAT APPEAR MORE THAN ONCE IN THE TABLE. SO THEY SHOULD BE LOOKED AT MORE CLOSELY. WITH THAT HIGH LEVEL DISCUSSION OF OUR PRELIMINARY FINDINGS, I BELIEVE I AM TURNING IT BACK OVER TO TABITHA TO TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS. TABITHA. THANK YOU. I'M RICK HENLEY AND ALSO JASON APPRECIATE THAT OVERVIEW. AND SO LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR NEXT STEPS AND WHERE WE'RE HEADED. AS IT HAS BEEN STATED, WE ARE WRAPPING UP SO WE ANTICIPATE THE PLAN TO BE COMPLETED JUNE OF 2025. AND THEN WE HAVE ALREADY PRESCHEDULED THAT OUR CONSULTANTS WILL COME TO THE AUGUST MEETING FOR OUR SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION ON AUGUST THE 18TH, AND THEN WE WILL BE BACK HERE WITH YOU ALL TO PRESENT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. THOSE FINDING AND DO A FINAL ADOPTION IN FALL OF 2025 OF THE PLAN. WE MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO AS YOU ALL KNOW THIS, THIS IS IMPORTANT, RIGHT? AS WE LOOK AT THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND ENSURING THAT WE ARE MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR AGING POPULATION, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS STRATEGIC PLAN IS GOING TO HELP US IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS SO THAT WE CAN ACT MORE APPROPRIATELY. AND THEN ALSO WE WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON OUR OLDER ADULTS HAVING A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE. AND WITH THAT SAID THESE ARE JUST A COUPLE HIGHLIGHTS OF OPPORTUNITIES IN WHICH WE HAVE WORKED WITH OUR OTHER DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE CITY. AND ALSO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS BUILD THIS VIBRANT PORTFOLIO. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED AS THE CITY SO THAT WE CAN STRENGTHEN OUR DECISION MAKING AND ENSURE THAT WE HAVE A GREAT FINANCIAL AND RESOURCES AND ALLOCATION, AND CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE. WE CAN MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. AND AT THIS TIME WE WILL TAKE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS BY THE COMMITTEE? MISS SCHULTZ THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. FIRST OF ALL I'M GOING BACK TO SLIDE SLIDES 13 AND 14. [00:45:09] SO ON THESE SERVICE DOMAINS, THE EIGHT THAT YOU'VE IDENTIFIED WITH THE THREE LEVELS. ARE THERE OTHER FACTORS AS WELL THAT MAYBE LEVEL 4 OR 5 OR BEYOND OR OTHER SERVICE DOMAINS THAT ARE NOT HERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. IT IS YES. AND THEN I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MR. JAY WRIGHT TO ANSWER THAT. THANK YOU. YEAH. YOU CAN SUBDIVIDE MOST OF THESE EIGHT SERVICE DOMAINS INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT WILL IMPACT OLDER ADULTS IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THESE EIGHT CATEGORIES ARE PULLED FROM OUR RESEARCH FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF STRATEGIC PLANS THAT FOCUS ON OLDER ADULTS. AND THESE ARE THE SERVICE DOMAINS THAT CONTINUE TO COME UP OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND THAT WAS YEAH. SO ANY OTHERS WOULD BE MORE ANCILLARY AND REMOTE. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? BASICALLY THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING FITS INTO THESE EIGHT. THAT'S CORRECT. AND THESE WERE ACTUALLY LISTED IN THE RFP. THANK YOU. AND THEN MY NEXT QUESTION IS ON SLIDE 14. IS THERE THE OPPORTUNITY ACROSS THE CITY TO LOOK AT A MATRIX THAT SAYS, OKAY IN DEED 275207. THAT IS PRIMARILY LEVEL ONE AND MOBILITY OR WHATEVER. IS THERE A WAY TO FURTHER DEFINE THE SPECIFIC NEEDS BY ZIP CODE, AND THEN IN FACT, EXPAND THAT DATA ACROSS THE CITY SO THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE THE MOST NEED OR THE LEAST NEED, THEY AT LEAST KNOW WHAT THE NEEDS ARE IN THEIR DISTRICT. YES, WE HAVE DEVELOPED A TOOL FOR OK WHERE THEY CAN, USING A POWER BI INTERFACE, THEY CAN ACTUALLY ZOOM IN ON NOT JUST ONE OF THESE DOMAINS BY ZIP CODE, BUT ONE OF THE SUB ITEMS IN THE DOMAINS. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE UNDER TECHNOLOGY. IF THEY WANTED TO KNOW BROADBAND ACCESS BY ZIP CODE, THEY COULD INPUT A ZIP CODE OR A COLLECTION OF ZIP CODES AND UNDERSTAND WHAT BROADBAND ACCESS LOOKED LIKE IN THAT SECTION OF THE CITY, OR ACROSS THE CITY IN GENERAL. SO THAT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE. WE CAN DO IT WITH ALL THE DOMAINS. THAT'S FANTASTIC. I WISH WE COULD DO THIS FOR ALL SOCIAL SERVICES, FRANKLY. BUT IN THIS, I THINK IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC IF THERE WAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SORT OF GO TO SIT DOWN WITH EACH COUNCIL MEMBER AND GO OVER ALL THE NEEDS OF THE SENIOR POPULATION WITHIN THEIR DISTRICT SO THEY COULD PLAN. THANK YOU FOR THAT FEEDBACK. AND I WANT TO ADD TO THAT, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT WE EXPLICITLY SAID IT DURING THE CONVERSATION. BUT AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DOING THE SENIOR LISTENING SESSIONS BY DISTRICT AND WORKING WITH YOU ALL AND YOUR COUNCIL OFFICES. WE DID THAT THROUGHOUT ALL OF LAST YEAR. WE INTEND TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT. AND I THINK THAT THAT CAN BECOME A WAY OF KIND OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND CONTINUOUS INPUT AS WE WORK WITH THIS DATA THAT'S BEEN PULLED TOGETHER TO HELP US REFINE OUR STRATEGIES AND PRIORITIES. YEAH. SO EVENTUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS EVERY DISTRICT HAS THEIR OWN SENIOR STRATEGY THAT'S UNIQUE TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, BOTH FROM LISTENING AS WELL AS OUR DATA. CORRECT. AND WE ALSO PROVIDED ALL THE INFORMATION FROM THOSE SESSIONS TO GUIDEHOUSE AS WELL. SO THAT WAS CONSIDERED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE. GREAT. SO, SO I THINK AS AN ACTION ITEM. THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MISS WILLIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE I DIDN'T HEAR THAT REFERENCED IN THE LIST. BUT YOU'RE SAYING YOU DID TAKE ALL OF THOSE NOTES FROM ALL THE DISTRICT LEVEL SESSIONS, AND THOSE WERE FACTORED IN IN ADDITION TO THE NEW ONES THAT WERE PLANNED? YES. OKAY. AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO PETER KLEIN, THE CHAIR OF THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION, FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, SAYING, YOU KNOW, I'LL DO THIS JOB IF WE CAN GET INTO THE DATA AND DOING SOMETHING REALLY ACTIONABLE ON THIS. AND SO TO SEE IT COMING TO THIS POINT AND BE ON THE BRINK OF HAVING THE OUTCOME OF THIS AND THEN MOVE INTO ACTION IS CRITICAL TO THIS IMPORTANT SEGMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND I WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSE THE IDEA OF A MATRIX THAT EACH COUNCIL MEMBER CAN LOOK AT AND UNDERSTAND ZIP CODES. AND EVEN THOUGH WE LISTED THESE TOP ZIP CODES, I THINK WE ALL WILL HAVE INTEREST IN ANY PARTICULAR AREAS. I HAVE A SENSE OF IT IN MY DISTRICT, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW IF I'M MISSING ANYTHING ON THAT. WITH REGARD TO THE DATA, IN LOOKING AT PAGE 13 ON THE SERVICE DOMAIN AROUND FINANCIAL SECURITY AND ALSO AGING IN PLACE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I'M WONDERING IF I WOULD MAKE AN ASSUMPTION THAT WORKING OR EMPLOYMENT WOULD LIVE UNDER FINANCIAL SECURITY, BECAUSE I KNOW IN OUR LISTENING SESSIONS WE DID HEAR ABOUT A DESIRE TO WORK. AND OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE SOME AGEIST YOU KNOW, POLICIES OR, YOU KNOW, WRITTEN OR UNWRITTEN THAT EXIST, [00:50:07] BUT THERE'S A POPULATION THAT IS PRETTY FREE AND CLEAR TO SHOW UP FOR WORK AND HAS THAT GOOD YOU KNOW, BABY BOOMER WORK ETHIC AND ALL OF THAT. AND SO I'D TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THAT WAS AIRED IN THIS. SURE, AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, FOR BRINGING THAT UP. I WILL SAY VOLUNTEERISM AND EMPLOYMENT REMAINS CONSISTENT, I BELIEVE, ACROSS ALL OF THE DISTRICTS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT DUE TO ALL OF THE FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS THAT OLDER ADULTS ARE CURRENTLY FACING, A LOT OF THEM ARE LOOKING TO GET BACK INTO THE WORKFORCE AS WELL. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WHEN WE DID INFORM GUIDEHOUSE OF THE LISTENING SESSIONS, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME UP CONSISTENTLY IN ADDITION TO VOLUNTEERISM. SO THAT WAS FOLDED IN THROUGH OUR LISTENING SESSIONS AND THAT WAS INFORMED TO PROVIDED TO BY GUIDEHOUSE. IN ADDITION TO THAT, OUR SURVEY DID ASK ABOUT EMPLOYMENT. AND IT ALSO ASKED THEM HOW FAR IF THEY DID WORK, HOW FAR WAS THEIR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT FROM THEIR HOME IN WHICH THEY LIVE AS WELL? SO THAT HAS BEEN HIGHLIGHTED IN THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN OBTAINED. SO ON THE COMMUNITY SURVEY ASPECT OF THIS, OF WHAT EXISTS IN THE MARKETPLACE, I MEAN, I HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME AGENCIES THAT MAY HELP WITH TRAINING OR WITH PLACEMENT AND THAT SORT OF THING, BUT IT STILL SEEMS TO FALL PRETTY SHORT. IS THIS SOMETHING WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE A LITTLE MORE DIRECTION ON OR POINTING TO A BIG GAP IN THIS. YES, I BELIEVE SO. AND I'M ALSO GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DIRECTOR GALLISHAW BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CONTRACT WITH YOU AND I THAT PROVIDES SUPPORT AND TRAINING AND SERVICES AS OF RIGHT NOW. FOR OLDER ADULTS. SURE. I CAN SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT. I WILL ALSO ADD, JUST QUICKLY, ON YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE ALIGNMENT OF WORKING WITH FINANCIAL SECURITY. I THINK THAT THAT'S GENERALLY TRUE, BUT I THINK THE MOTIVATION PROBABLY MATTERS. FOR SOME SENIORS, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT TABITHA BROUGHT UP THAT SOME MIGHT PREFER TO VOLUNTEER. IT MAY BE JUST AS IMPORTANT THAT THEY'RE GETTING THAT SOCIAL CONNECTION OR AVOIDING THAT SOCIAL ISOLATION. SO IN A WAY, IT MIGHT EVEN BE CONSIDERED WITHIN THAT TOP CATEGORY AS WELL. SO IT KIND OF DEPENDS. BUT YES, WE HAVE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS, I'M NOT EVEN SURE HOW MANY WE HAVE HAD CONTRACTS WITH PROVIDERS AROUND KIND OF JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT FOR OLDER ADULTS. I DO GET THE SENSE THAT THERE IT PROBABLY IS AN AREA WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A GAP. FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN THE PARTNER WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY FOCUSED EXCLUSIVELY ON OLDER ADULTS AS MUCH AS PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS BARRIERS TO WORK PARTICULARLY PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, BARRIERS TO WORK. AND SO THEY HELP PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ACCESS JOBS THAT AND KIND OF PROVIDE THEM WITH TRAINING AND ACCESS TO JOBS THAT THAT, THAT WORK WITHIN SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS. AND SO THERE'S A LARGE PORTION OF THE SENIOR POPULATION THAT THAT WORKS FOR BUT THERE'S ALSO A LARGE PORTION OF THE SENIOR POPULATION THAT DON'T NECESSARILY NEED THAT TYPE OF SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S AN AVENUE FOR CONTINUED KIND OF REVIEW ASSESSMENT, AND IT PROBABLY IS AN AREA THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER A COMMUNITY GAP. AND I HEARD BOTH AT MY SESSION. BUT I ALSO I MEAN, THE CRY WAS A LITTLE BIT GREATER AND REALLY MORE MOVING, I THINK, ON THE FINANCIAL CONCERNS SIDE, AND WE'VE JUST GONE THROUGH MAKING A GREAT CALL TO COMPANIES TO SIGN UP OUR INTERNS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND IN COLLEGE, AND THAT'S GREAT. THE YOUNGER SET MOVING INTO THE WORKFORCE. BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AN AWARENESS AND ISSUE A CALL TO BUSINESS THAT WE'VE GOT OUR SENIORS OUT THERE WHO NOT JUST WANT TO STILL BE PRODUCTIVE, BUT SOME OF THEM REALLY NEED THAT INCOME IN ADDITION. SO I THINK IT COULD BE A WIN-WIN. ALSO LOOKING AT SLIDE 13 AROUND HOUSING AND AGING IN PLACE OR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I'VE BEEN VERY CURIOUS ABOUT A SHARED HOUSING MODEL AND HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE HOUSE RICH AND AND MAY HAVE THE SOCIAL ISOLATION AND I'M JUST NOT SURE I'VE DONE SOME LOOKING AROUND, BUT IF THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE ADDRESSED TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY MODELS THAT ARE SUCCESSFUL OUT THERE, BECAUSE THAT COULD HELP ACCOMPLISH A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS. AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME MODELS OUT THERE THAT ACTUALLY HAVE YOUNGER PEOPLE MOVING IN WITH A SENIOR TO HELP WITH SOME THINGS, BUT TO OFFSET COST AND ISOLATION. SO I WOULD I WOULD BE CURIOUS WHAT WAS REVEALED AROUND THAT. AND WE JUST WANT TO SEE A LITTLE MORE DEPTH AROUND THAT OPTION AND HOW IT IS OR IS NOT BEING ADDRESSED IN THE COMMUNITY CURRENTLY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT'S GOOD. PRIMARILY. I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. NO, THAT WAS ALL. I WAS JUST THANKING HER. PLEASE DO SPEAK MORE ON THAT IF YOU HAVE BETTER INPUT. NO, NO, NO, THAT WAS THAT'S REALLY GOOD INSIGHT. WHAT WE HEARD PRIMARILY IN THE LISTENING SESSIONS AROUND HOUSING WAS I HAVE A HOUSE. [00:55:04] ALLOW ME TO, TO ALLOW ME BETTER MECHANISMS TO KEEP IT. WHETHER IT BE MAKING SURE THAT I'M AWARE OF PROGRAMS THAT CAN HELP ME WHEN I NEED LIMBS THAT NEED TRIMMING, OR I NEED UTILITY ASSISTANCE, OR THE HELPING HANDS PROGRAM TO HELP GET THE SANITATION BASKET TO AND FROM THE CURB THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT THERE WAS SOME INTEREST THAT WE DID HERE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING MORE SENIOR HOUSING THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF DALLAS. BUT THE SHARED HOUSING CONCEPT, I BELIEVE, JAY, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG THAT IS A CONCEPT THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THE BOSTON AGE FRIENDLY PLAN. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY RESEARCH AND BRING TO OK. YEAH, THERE'S SEVERAL OF THOSE TYPES OF INITIATIVES. THERE'S MULTI-GENERATIONAL HOUSING, AS YOU MENTIONED. THERE'S ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS WHERE YOU KNOW SORT OF WHAT WE USED TO CALL THE MOTHER IN LAW SUITE IS ON THE SAME PROPERTY. AS WELL AS THERE ARE WHAT ARE COLLOQUIALLY REFERRED TO AS SENIOR FOSTER SERVICES. SO THAT IS WHERE A FAMILY VERY SIMILAR TO A FOSTER CHILDREN ALLOWS AN OLDER ADULT TO MOVE INTO THEIR HOUSEHOLD AND TAKE THEM AS PART OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD AND ARE SOMETIMES REIMBURSED FOR THAT. AND SOMETIMES IT'S A VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY. WE CAN DEFINITELY EXPLORE THESE FURTHER. WELL, AND I'M LOOKING AT FLIPPING IT, GOING BACK TO WHAT MR. HENLEY SAID ON THE UTILITY ASSISTANCE AND STAYING IN THE HOME AND ALL OF THAT. SO THAT COULD BE THE HOUSE RICH BUT JUST ISOLATION POOR OR I GUESS SOCIETAL INTERACTION POOR. SO INSTEAD OF HAVING SOMEONE MOVE IN WITH A FAMILY, I MEAN, IT'S THAT THERE'S AVAILABILITY OF SPACE THAT COULD BE OF ASSISTANCE TO HELP WITH THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF THINGS AND ALSO HELP SOMEONE ELSE FIND HOUSING THAT IS NOT AT THE MARKET RATE. SO ANYWAY, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS ON THE RADAR. I JUST WOULD LOVE TO SEE US EXPLORE THAT OPTION. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. MR. GRACEY. AS SOMEONE WHO HAS TWO DAUGHTERS IN COLLEGE, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. AND ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO PIGGYBACK ON A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE GOING THROUGH AND JUST KIND OF THE DIFFERENT THE DATA RELATED TO ALL OF THE DISTRICTS SO THAT WE CAN BE AWARE. AND HE MENTIONED, THAT THAT INTERFACE WITH POWER BI AND BEING ABLE TO RUN A REPORT BY DISTRICT. AND IF YOU COULD SCHEDULE SOME TIME WITH MY OFFICE AND PERHAPS THE REST TO SHOW US HOW TO DO THAT, THEN WE'RE HAPPY TO PULL THAT AS WELL. BUT I THINK THAT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE. IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTATION. DO YOU DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY ADDITIONAL BUDGET NEEDS FOR THIS GOING INTO THIS FISCAL YEAR? IS IT TOO SOON TO ASK THAT QUESTION? NO, IT'S NEVER TOO SOON. YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO RESPOND TO, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE PLAN ISN'T, YOU KNOW, FINAL AND ADOPTED YET. I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME CONVERSATIONS IN THE ARPA REPROGRAMING DISCUSSIONS AS WELL, AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME PILOTS OR THINGS ALIGNED WITH THE PLAN. SO I THINK WE'RE KIND OF HOLDING BACK FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE, ON SOME SPECIFIC TYPES OF RECOMMENDATIONS. OF COURSE, UNTIL WE REALLY HAVE THIS ALL INFORMATION, THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE WORKING ON ADVANCING THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS NOW. AND SO YOU'LL DEFINITELY BE HEARING FROM THEM PRETTY QUICKLY, AS YOU ALWAYS DO. BUT YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC ASK TIED TO THE PLAN AT THIS MOMENT. OKAY. AND THAT AND THAT KIND OF LEADS ME INTO THE SECOND PART OF THAT QUESTION, WHICH IS FROM AN OUTREACH PERSPECTIVE, I KNOW WE'VE DONE OUTREACH TO KIND OF IDENTIFY THOSE PROBLEMS OR GAPS OR WHATEVER HOWEVER YOU WANT TO FRAME IT. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE THE OUTREACH TO IDENTIFY THOSE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS? LIKE WE'RE THROWING SOME IDEAS OUT THERE AS WELL, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT I HEARD ANY OF THAT TYPE OF OUTREACH. AND WILL THERE BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME MORE FEEDBACK IN TERMS OF WHAT? WHAT PROGRAMS OR WHATEVER COMES FROM THIS? WILL THERE BE MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY? THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER I THINK THAT THAT'S FANTASTIC. IT'S ALMOST LIKE A CALL TO ACTION IN A SENSE, THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN UTMOST CONSIDER. I ACTUALLY LOVE THAT IDEA. SO I'M GOING TO SAY YES, WE CAN CONSIDER THAT. BUT THAT WOULD BE OF COURSE, IN THE IMPLEMENT RIGHT BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION. AND LOOKING AT AFTER WE RECEIVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS SO WE CAN. HAVE A RECOMMENDATION, I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO IF PERHAPS OUR PARTNERS FROM GUIDEHOUSE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE DONE AS YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BOTH PROFESSIONALS IN THIS SPACE OF OLDER ADULTS AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES. FOR A LONG TIME. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO AND THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS TO IS A WHOLE HOST, A WHOLE BEVY OF KIND OF STRATEGIC PLANS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OLDER ADULT COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY. [01:00:01] SO THEY HAVE A GREAT RESOURCE BASIS FOR THAT. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT TO SPEAK JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE RESOURCES AND AWARENESS THAT YOU HAVE IN TERMS OF ABILITY TO KIND OF LOOK INTO SOME BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMS OR SOME EMERGING PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. WE'VE DEVELOPED A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND COMMUNICATION BECAUSE, AS I STATED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION REGARDLESS OF THE SERVICE OR REGARDLESS OF THE SERVICE DOMAIN, ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT WE HEARD, AND WE HEAR THIS EVERYWHERE, IS I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE TO ACCESS SERVICES OR HOW TO ACCESS SERVICES. SO WE HAVE DEVELOPED SOME VERY KEY ACTION ITEMS AROUND COMMUNICATION. AND BASICALLY WHAT IT INVOLVES IS MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE. WHAT WE HEARD WHAT WE HEARD IS THAT WHILE THERE ARE SOME THAT LIKE TRADITIONAL. I'M SORRY THAT LIKE USED TECHNOLOGY, MOST OF THE CITIZENS OF DALLAS RELY ON THOSE TRADITIONAL METHODS FLIERS, OUTREACH, GOING, GETTING INFORMATION FROM THE PLACES THAT THEY TRUST, CHURCHES, SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. SO MEETING THEM WHERE THEY ARE. ADDITIONALLY, WHERE WE FIND THAT FOLKS HAD THE MOST WHERE IT WAS THE LOUDEST, THAT THEY NEEDED MORE INFORMATION, WE'VE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED THOSE DOWN TO THE ZIP CODE SO THAT SOME OF THOSE ACTION ITEMS, WE CAN ACTUALLY RECOMMEND SOME VERY STRATEGIC AND TARGETED OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, WHETHER THAT BE GOING DOOR TO DOOR OR HOLDING LISTENING SESSIONS IN THOSE ZIP CODE AREAS. SO I THINK THAT REGARDLESS OF THE SERVICE, ONE OF THE OVERARCHING THEMES, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT BOTH JESSICA AND TABITHA TOLD US AT THE VERY BEGINNING, IS THAT REGARDLESS OF THE STRATEGY OR THE DOMAIN, THERE ARE CERTAIN OVERARCHING THEMES THAT THEY WANT ECHOED THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE ACTION ITEMS, THROUGHOUT ALL THE GOALS. AND ONE OF THEM WAS MAKING SURE THAT WE REACH THOSE HARD TO REACH AND THOSE TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED AREAS. SO THAT WILL BE A THEME THAT WE WILL ECHO THROUGHOUT OUR PLAN AS WE AS WE DEVELOP IT. PERFECT, PERFECT. ADDITIONALLY, ONE OTHER THING THAT I THINK IF IMPLEMENTED BY THE CITY OF DALLAS, I DO THINK WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST CITIES TO ACTUALLY DO THIS. AND JESSICA'S HAS TALKED A LOT ABOUT. I'M SORRY TABITHA HAS TALKED A LOT ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION IS ACTUALLY HAVING NOT ONLY AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, BUT A DASHBOARD THAT CITIZENS CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT TO SEE HOW ARE WE DOING ON OUR PROGRESS? YOU KNOW, WE ANTICIPATE HAVING VARIOUS GOALS, VARIOUS ACTION ITEMS AND VARIOUS MEASURES THAT ARE GOING TO SAY, THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO MEET THIS GOAL. AND ACTUALLY, AS WE MEET THOSE ACTION ITEMS, AND ACTUALLY AS WE ACTUALLY CHECK OUT THOSE BOXES, WE CAN ACTUALLY MONITOR OUR PROGRESS AND OUR IMPLEMENTATION. AND THAT IS SOMETHING, IF ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF DALLAS, Y'ALL WOULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST ENTITIES TO DO SO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND JUST REALLY GOING ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, YOU CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK WE'RE APPROACHING ABOUT THE YEAR POINT FROM THE LAST LISTENING SESSION WE HAD AROUND THE DISTRICTS. AND I THINK MISS VERNA WHICH IS MY SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WHO'S BEEN VERY ACTIVE, WE HAD A VERY ACTIVE AND IT INVOLVED LISTENING SESSION. AND FROM THERE WE FORMED THE SUBCOMMITTEE. SO I GUESS WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING OR ASKING IS IF WE CAN BRING THIS BACK KIND OF AS AN ANNUAL UPDATE IN THE FORM OF THAT SAME LISTENING SESSION SO THAT WE CAN TAKE SOME OF THE THOSE POINTS AND TURN THEM IN WITH THE SUBCOMMITTEES, TURN THEM INTO ACTION ITEMS WHERE THEY CAN GET INVOLVED AS WELL. FROM THERE. SO THAT IS MY RECOMMENDATION. THEN THE OTHER ONE IS I JUST WANT TO AGAIN BRAG A LITTLE BIT. I MENTIONED IT THE OTHER DAY, BUT I HIRED MY SENIOR INTERN, AND HE'S NOW MANAGING OUR DISTRICT OFFICE AND HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR RETURNING PHONE CALLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO IF YOU GET THESE TYPE OF RESOURCES TO OUR OFFICE, WE CAN ENSURE THAT HE'S ALSO MAKING THOSE CALLS AND REACHING FOLKS AS WELL. WE WE'RE FINDING THINGS FOR HIM TO DO. AND HE'S VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN BEING A PART OF IT TO THE POINT OF THIS STUDY. SO AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR DOING THIS STUDY. BUT TO THE POINT OF THAT JUST FINDING WAYS TO BE ENGAGED, HE'S NOT ASKING TO BE PAID. HE JUST WANTS THAT INTERACTION. AND HE'S PERFECT FOR IT BECAUSE HE HAS THAT GIFT OF GAB AS I WISH I HAD SOMETIMES. BUT BUT HE LOVES ENGAGING THE FOLKS. SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO. AND THEN TO THE POINT OF JOBS, THEY'RE ALSO ASKING, AND I'M IN THE PROCESS OF LOOKING FOR FINDING ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE DISTRICT THAT THAT WILL HIRE SENIORS. SO I'LL BE REACHING OUT FOR THAT AS WELL. SO BUT THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL OF THIS WORK, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL OF THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. VICE CHAIR RESENDEZ. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE TO PROACTIVELY PLAN FOR THE NEEDS OF OUR AGING POPULATION. ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAD HAS ALREADY BEEN ASKED COUNCIL MEMBER GRACEY ASKED ABOUT HOW THIS WILL IMPACT OUR CITY'S BUDGET. SO I'M GLAD THAT THERE'S THOUGHT THAT'S BEING PUT BEHIND THAT ALREADY. I WAS WONDERING, THOUGH, IF THERE'S THOUGHT BEING PUT BEHIND HOW WE WILL MEASURE PROGRESS ONCE THIS PLAN IS ADOPTED. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTION. [01:05:05] SO WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS. WE THEN WILL PUT TOGETHER THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES. AND ALONG WITH THAT, WE WILL HAVE THIS AREA IN WHICH WE WILL BE ABLE TO MEASURE EACH ONE OF THOSE STRATEGIES. AND SO THIS HAS TO BE PUT IN PLACE IN ORDER FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN TO BE EFFECTIVE. AND SO THAT WILL BE SUCCUMB. WE EXPECT THAT THAT LIKE ONCE AGAIN, WILL HAPPEN PROBABLY AROUND THE FALL ONCE WE HAVE REVIEWED THE RECOMMENDATIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAD. OH, YEAH. I WAS JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HAVING AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ONCE WE'VE ADOPTED IT AND ACTUALLY GOING ONE STEP FURTHER TO ACTUALLY EVEN ALSO HAVING A CONTINUOUS EVALUATION PLAN TO NOT ONLY MEASURE IMPLEMENTATION, BUT TO ACTUALLY SEE IF, IN FACT, SOME OF THESE ACTION ITEMS THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS ADOPTS ACTUALLY HAS THE IMPACT THAT IT THAT WE HOPE IT HAS, SO THAT IF IN FACT IT'S NOT, WE NEED TO PIVOT ACCORDINGLY. WE CAN DO SO AS THE PLAN PROGRESSES. MOVING ON TO THE CYBER WORLD. MR. BAZALDUA. ANY QUESTIONS, MISS BLACKMON? GO AHEAD. BUT WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE OR A LOT OF GROUPS IN THE NONPROFIT WORLD. WELL, THE PLAN ACTUALLY SHOW WHICH ONES WE CAN LEVERAGE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS. AND I THINK SOME WE EVEN HAVE CONTRACTS. I BELIEVE I UNDERSTOOD YOU PRETTY WELL. AND SO WITH THAT SAID OUR CITYWIDE ANALYSIS WOULD BE THE MOST APPROPRIATE DELIVERABLE THAT WILL ANSWER THAT RELATED TO OUR SOCIAL SERVICES OR AGING PARTNERS THAT SERVICE OUR OLDER ADULTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. OKAY. SO WE WILL BE OKAY. GO AHEAD. YEAH. I WAS JUST SAYING. YEAH, ONE OF THE DELIVERABLES THAT THAT TABITHA REFERENCED IS CALLED THE LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS, WHICH IS AN ACTUALLY, A IT'S A LISTING OF ALL OF THE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE DALLAS METROPOLITAN AREA THAT PROVIDE SERVICES TO OLDER ADULTS IN THE CITY, AND THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF THOSE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED. SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST DELIVERABLES WE DELIVERED BACK IN FEBRUARY IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY. BUT THOSE WILL BE USED AS WE MOVE FORWARD OF HOW WE CAN LEVERAGE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS? THEY WILL BE LEVERAGED. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES. THE STRATEGIC PLANS ONE OF THE PROMISING PRACTICES OF STRATEGIC PLANS RELATED TO OLDER ADULTS IS COLLABORATING ACROSS PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND NONPROFIT ENTITIES. AND SO THAT'S BAKED IN. IT'S ALMOST AN ASSUMPTION. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO THE FOREFRONT. THANK YOU, MISS BLACKMON. SO PREFACING MY QUESTIONS, I WANT TO FIRST OF ALL RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS STRATEGIC SENIOR STRATEGIC PLAN. I THINK ITS TIME HAS COME. THIS IS OUR FASTEST GROWING POPULATION COHORT IN THE CITY AND YET FREQUENTLY OVERLOOKED. IT'S IMPORTANT TO IDENTIFY NOT JUST THE NEEDS OF THIS COHORT, BUT ALSO THE AVAILABLE SERVICES TO SATISFY THOSE NEEDS. SO I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE THAT THIS DRAFT PLAN DOES BOTH. A QUESTION FOR YOU, MR. HENLEY, WITH REGARD TO YOUR STATEMENT ABOUT HAVING DONE A CITYWIDE SURVEY, WHICH IS REFLECTED ON SLIDE TEN AS PART OF PHASE ONE, I'VE HEARD THAT YOU GOT A VERY LOW RESPONSE RATE TO THAT CITYWIDE SURVEY. HOW MANY PEOPLE RESPONDED? WE ACTUALLY USED TWO MEDIUMS, ONE OF WHICH WAS A DIGITAL SURVEY, AND THE OTHER WAS A TRADITIONAL PAPER SURVEY. I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBERS RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT I WANT TO SAY THE DIGITAL SURVEY WAS AROUND 219 PARTICIPANTS. THE PAPER SURVEYS WERE SLIGHTLY MORE AT 245. IT WAS SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAD HOPED, BUT WE DID USE VARIOUS CHANNELS AND MEDIUMS TO TRY TO GET AS MUCH GET AS MUCH PARTICIPATION AS POSSIBLE. I WILL ALSO SHARE WITH YOU, WHILE IT IS A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAD HOPED, IT'S NOT THAT FAR FROM OUR EXPERIENCE IN DOING THIS WITH OTHER STATES AND OTHER ENTITIES. SO I STILL THINK IT'S REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NEEDS OF THE CITY, BUT YES, SIR, YOU ARE CORRECT. I WISH WE HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE PARTICIPATION. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRIED TO DO IN ORDER TO GET MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION WAS TO ADVERTISE ON VARIOUS MEDIUMS. AND IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, WE ACTUALLY WERE GOING TO KEEP THE SURVEY OPEN FOR A MONTH, AND WE ACTUALLY EXTENDED IT BY ONE MORE WEEK JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD GET THE MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION AS POSSIBLE. [01:10:02] OKAY. THANK YOU. ON SLIDE 13, THE SERVICE DOMAINS LEVEL THREE IS AGING IN PLACE AND FINANCIAL SECURITY. DOES THAT FINANCIAL SECURITY CATEGORY GO BEYOND JUST CONCERNS ABOUT INCOME VERSUS EXPENSES TO INCLUDE CYBERSECURITY CONCERN ABOUT SCAMS AGAINST THE ELDERLY? ABSOLUTELY. YES, SIR. IN FACT, PROBABLY WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE IS, YOU KNOW, UNDER AGING IN PLACE, YOU HAVE EVERYTHING FROM UTILITY ASSISTANCE. ASSISTANCE WITH LAWN MAINTENANCE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. YEAH. AND ALL THOSE DOMAINS, SUBDOMAINS UNDER EACH OF THOSE DOMAINS. BUT. YES, SIR. FINANCIAL SECURITY. ABSOLUTELY. INCLUDES FINANCIAL SCAMS, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THIS PARTICULAR POPULATION IS THE MOST VULNERABLE TO THOSE. IN FACT, WHEN I WAS WITH THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, WE ACTUALLY HAD A TASK FORCE THAT SPECIFICALLY PROSECUTED PEOPLE WHO DID THIS AND GAVE THEM MAXIMUM PENALTIES. BUT YES, SIR. UNDERNEATH FINANCIAL SECURITY, IT INCLUDES SUCH THINGS AS FINANCIAL SCAMS PLANNING, FINANCIAL PLANNING, AS WELL AS MAXIMIZING YOUR BUDGET TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT GOES AS FAR AS POSSIBLE. ALSO UNDERNEATH AGING IN PLACE AS WELL AS FINANCIAL SECURITY IS MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS KNOW ABOUT THOSE SERVICES THAT ARE OUT THERE TO HELP THEM MAINTAIN THEIR HOMES, AS WELL AS THINGS LIKE THE TAX EXEMPTIONS THAT THE CITY IS DALLAS PASSED FOR THOSE WHO ARE 65 AND OLDER SO THAT THEIR PROPERTY TAXES IS SLIGHTLY REDUCED. IF YOU'RE 65 AND OLDER, MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE KNOW THAT THAT THAT IS OUT THERE AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY ACTUALLY UTILIZE IT. AND ARE YOU AWARE OF AND HAVE YOU INTENDED TO INCLUDE IN THE LIST OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE, THE CITY'S SENIOR HOME REPAIR PROGRAM, BY WHICH SENIORS CAN RECEIVE GRANTS OR LOANS TO REPAIR THEIR HOMES. YES, IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, THAT FALLS UNDER, I BELIEVE, UNDER AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WE PUT IT UNDER THAT DOMAIN. GOOD. AND THEN FINALLY, THIS COHORTS SHOULD NOT BE THE SOLE AUDIENCE ALONG WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THIS PLAN. MANY SENIORS ARE RECEIVING SUPPORT OR CARE FROM FAMILY MEMBERS, PRINCIPALLY CHILDREN. AND SO I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT IN YOUR OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY THAT PARTICULARLY TO PUBLICIZE THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY, THAT YOU ALSO MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO THE CHILDREN OF SENIORS WHO I THINK IN MANY CASES ARE CRAVING THIS KIND OF INFORMATION TO HELP THEIR PARENTS. I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID ADDRESS WAS CAREGIVER SUPPORT. AND JAY, I KNOW THAT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO YOUR HEART. SO IF YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE RESEARCH WE DID AROUND THAT, SOME OF THE OUTREACH WE ANTICIPATE THAT CAREGIVERS NEED AND WHERE THAT FELL UNDER THESE COHORTS. PLEASE DO SO. CERTAINLY. SO CAREGIVER SUPPORT FALLS UNDER SEVERAL OF THE DOMAINS BASED ON OUR RESEARCH. SOCIAL ISOLATION, HEALTHCARE ACCESS, BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES CAREGIVERS ARE THERE IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING WITH THEIR OLDER LOVED ONE AS WELL AS AGING IN PLACE. AND, YOU KNOW, ONCE AGAIN, SORT OF LIKE WE SAID THAT YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC PRIVATE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIPS ARE BAKED IN WHEN WE USE THE TERM OLDER ADULTS. WE IMPLICITLY INCLUDE OLDER ADULTS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND OTHER NATURAL SUPPORTS. AND WE LOOK TO THOSE AS A SINGLE COHORT. BUT THANK YOU FOR CALLING IT OUT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE BEING VERY CLEAR AND VERY SPECIFIC. OLDER ADULTS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS ARE CRITICAL. CAREGIVERS PROVIDE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN IN-KIND SUPPORT. IF THEY WERE NOT THERE, IT WOULD, YOU KNOW, BE A VERY, VERY LARGE BURDEN ON CITIES AND STATES. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. AND IT IS IMPLIED AND SPECIFIC CAREGIVER SUPPORTS ARE AVAILABLE AND ARE A PART OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. GREAT. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE? SEEING NONE. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. WE'RE NOW READY FOR CONSIDERATION OF BRIEFING MEMOS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ITEM C, THE CULTURAL FACILITIES UPDATE ABOUT THE BATH HOUSE CULTURAL CENTER IN OAK CLIFF CULTURAL CENTER. SEEING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM D UPDATE ON THE DALLAS STREETS SEATS PROGRAM, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PARKLETS. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT BRIEFING MEMO? SEEING NONE. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ITEM E, 2526 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT? [01:15:05] WOW. THAT LEAVES ONLY OUR FORECAST FOR OUR JUNE 9TH AND AUGUST MEETINGS. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE PROPOSED AGENDAS? MISS WILLIS. THANK YOU. I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT ON JUNE 6TH, WE'VE GOT THE NEIGHBORHOOD DISRUPTION ITEM BEING DISCUSSED AGAIN ABOUT EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS. AND I BELIEVE, JUST TO RECAP, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NEIGHBORHOODS TO HAVE OR SEEK A SPECIAL PERMIT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO QUICKLY APPLY FOR THAT AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY AREN'T HOSTING AN EVENT, IT'S SOMETHING GOING ON IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT WE MIGHT COME UP WITH CREATIVELY TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT, AND THEN ALSO COMMERCIAL DISPLAYS AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND KIND OF WHAT WOULD CONSTITUTE THAT. I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BE TOUGH TO WRAP OUR ARMS AROUND, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING I DEFINITELY WANTED TO SEE EXPLORED, ALONG WITH LANGUAGE THAT I THINK WAS BEING LOOKED AT AS FAR AS TIGHTENING SOME DESCRIPTIONS OR BROADENING SOME, IF NECESSARY, TO UNDERSTAND THE FACT THAT IN TODAY WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS THAT TYPICALLY GO ON IN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS THAT ARE FINDING THEIR WAY INTO NEIGHBORHOODS AND CREATING A REAL RIPPLE INTO THE PEACE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SO I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE THAT ALL OF THAT WAS AND MORE WAS ON THE DISCUSSION FOR JUNE. THANK YOU. OKAY. THAT CONCLUDES OUR BUSINESS FOR THE MAY 19TH QUALITY OF LIFE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMITTEE, WHICH IS NOW ADJOURNED AT 10:18 A.M.. THANK YOU. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.